This is an analysis of the poem Such As A Bad Habit that begins with:
I've been on my own and alone for too long,
To know a few things about patience and life! ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccc ddcefgdd ahXcfi jddXedX eX hfckbhhi dciXh cllfgdai bfdcfdcjcc chci cXffkd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,8,6,7,2,8,5,8,10,4,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111101111 01011011011 11111110100 1101001101011 001101001001 110101110 110111010 01110101011 1111010100 01110111 101001100010 111001 111 1011110 1111 1111010100 0110 011010 111010010110 1101011 1101 11011 01100 1110100 0101111101 0111100 1110 011101 111001001 10011 10100111 111011111 110010111 10000101001 11011 11010101 1010101 01 110101101 101 1010 11101 11011101 110 11 10 1101101 0100010 1010011110 111010011 101011001101 1111100 01100011 010101100 111110011101101 1100 0111101101 100101100 010110010 111 0110 100101 1011101000 1101010010100 1110110000101 110110 110101 11 101110110
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 187
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 69
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Such As A Bad Habit;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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